Parents? what's your take about threatening arrest for kids?

It's abuse of power because he could not arrest the boy since he did not commit a crime. Humiliating him and scaring him isn't going to change anything and will only make him resentful. Maybe if the parents had been more involved and had better communication and a better relationship with their daughter then this would not have happened in the first place. It's easy to blame the boy after the fact instead of looking at their own situation and what they could have done different as parents.

since both children are under-age i dont see the point in arresting the boy.. its not technically illegal if they are both under age and as a cop if he's going to arrest these kids to teach them a lesson the least he could do was make sure they were actually committing an offence. technicallities aside, even though its a bit overboard he's only doing it to protect his step daughter, though i doubt she's going to see it that way :P

also the parents of the boy have the right to be pretty pissed off if they werent aware of the 'lesson' being taught to their son..

A little of both. Honestly, though, when it comes to the well-being of our children we occasionally lose our heads and act recklessly. This man is not above that not to mention the article states that the cop had the parents cooperation on the matter (which, honestly, I believe). Many parents would not have stopped at the "act" but continued on, holding that boy accountable for his actions (because he is older and unfortunately in our society the male, he would most likely be the one held accountable) placing him in jail, not just terrified with the threat of it. Those parents and that kid should be thanking their lucky stars it only went as far as an act.

*Sounds like someone on here is raising prostitots......

I don't believe in threats without a willingness to back it up. Scared Straight techniques have had some positive effects on some children. I have no issues with what that dad/officer did.

Heavy abuse of power. Should be fired and charged with false imprisonment at least. This is the reason we need harsher sentences for police officers. Not to start with how ageist and adulist this is.

Abuse of power, for sure.

I mean, is it that hard for him to be a real parent and just attempt to communicate with the kid ?

i think that's retarded... sex feels good, people are gonna do it... dad needs to snap back into reality... and if tried that with MY sons i would have him arrested so damn fast, buddy woudn't know what hit him... that is 100% an abuse of power and i think he should be stripped of his badge

edit... in cognito, was that directed at me?

I think if more teens and young adults are shown what the real world consequences could be for some of their actions, they might smarten up.

I don't see this as misconduct, he was just being a dad.

Overprotective dad.

But those kids are out of line and need some sort of punishment.